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enOvernight Recap: Verizon LTE Hits 500, GV Mobile + 3, Latest Apple TV Spots Flophttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/overnight_recap_verizon_lte_hits_500_gv_mobile_3_latest_apple_tv_spots_flop
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/verizon_lte_500_markets_620px.png" alt="Verizon 500 LTE markets" width="620" height="300" /></p><p>What a difference two and a half years make! Back in December 2010, Verizon Wireless launched its first 4G LTE markets well ahead of competitors, and this week the nation's largest wireless carrier is celebrating 500 markets. But that's not all: We've also rounded up some new app news and even the return of disc burning technology LightScribe to OS X Mountain Lion. Read on to find out more!</p><h3>Verizon 4G LTE Hits 500 Markets, No Plans to Slow Down</h3><p>Verizon Wireless had good reason to celebrate Thursday <a href="http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2013/06/verizon-wireless-500-4G-LTE-markets.html" target="_blank">with the announcement of its 500th 4G LTE market</a>. Now available in 49 states and to more than 298 million people, Big Red's fastest wireless data service will be available across the entire U.S. when it touches down in Alaska next month. LTE service now covers 99 percent of Verizon's existing 3G coverage, a pretty impressive feat considering the company launched its speedy network in December 2010.</p><h3>GV Mobile + 3 Now Available with VoIP Calling</h3><p><a href="http://www.seankovacs.com/2013/06/gv-mobile-3/" target="_blank">Developer Sean Kovacs announced</a> the release of <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-mobile-+-3-for-google-voice/id586624432?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Mobile + 3</a>, the latest version of his veteran Google Voice app for the iPhone. With a fresh new user interface, the third time appears to be the charm, as Kovacs has added gestures, easier notifications and most impressively, VoIP calling using an existing Google Voice number, which can be done over both Wi-Fi as well as data connections for free calls to just about anywhere. GV Mobile + 3 is now available from the App Store for $2.99, a limited time price to help ease longtime users onto the latest and greatest version.</p><h3>Apple's Latest TV Ads Not a Hit with Viewers</h3><p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-27/apple-s-tv-ads-touting-company-values-flop-with-viewers.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg reported Thursday</a> that Apple's latest ad campaign appears to be a bust with viewers. According to consulting firm Ace Metrix Inc., Cupertino's latest 60-second company values advertisements scored a mere 489 in a survey of TV viewers -- well below the industry average of 542, a big dip for a company whose campaigns generally rank above 700. So what's the problem? According to one professor of advertising at Boston University, the new spot is just too "self indulgent," going so far as to describe it as lacking any joy. May be time to go back to the drawing board, folks...</p><h3>AOL Delivers Remaining Services to Free iPad App</h3><p>Say what you want about AOL, but they don't give up. On Thursday, the service formerly known as America Online <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aol-mail-news-weather-video/id646100661?mt=8" target="_blank">unveiled a new AOL app for iPad</a>, which brings all of the company's internet services into a fresh new tablet interface, including up-to-the-minute news, videos and yes, AOL Mail. We still see quite a few aol.com email addresses kicking around in our online travels, so there should be some folks out there ready to take the plunge with this free app, now available from the App Store.</p><h3>LightScribe Software Finally Updated for OS X Mountain Lion</h3><p>Sure, optical discs may be yesterday's news, but there are plenty of folks who still rely on them. For those with LightScribe-enabled burners, you'll be happy to know that the disc etching technology has finally been updated to work with OS X Mountain Lion after all these years. <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/06/24/lightscribe-software-for-optical-disc-labels-finally-updated/" target="_blank">According to TUAW</a>, the free LightScribe software is <a href="http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadsection/mac/index.aspx?id=852" target="_blank">now available from HP</a>, so grab it quick before OS X Mavericks comes along and possibly breaks it all over again.<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a></em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/overnight_recap_verizon_lte_hits_500_gv_mobile_3_latest_apple_tv_spots_flop#commentsNews4G LTEAdvertisingAOLApp StoreApple Inc.GV MobileiPad AppsLightScribeovernight recapVerizon WirelessiPadiPhoneMacFri, 28 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000J.R. Bookwalter17390 at http://www.maclife.comIn Case You Missed It: Mar. 20 Mar. 26http://www.maclife.com/article/features/case_you_missed_it_mar_20_mar_26
<!--paging_filter--><p>Okay, okay, have we all settled down from iPad 2 mania? Sure, it finally hit the UK this week and the Brits went gaga for it, but meanwhile other stuff's popping. Like what? you ask. I guess you came to the right place to find out all the stuff you missed. You know, just in case.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Features:</strong></p><p><img src="/files/u220903/firefox_4_about_screen_620px.jpg" alt="firefox4" width="620" height="360" /></p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/features/first_look_firefox_4_mac">First Look: Firefox 4 for Mac</a> - Firefox 4 is out the gate for Mac and PC users promising all kinds of speed and performance enhancements plus tons of other new goodies. We got our hands on a copy and took a look under the hood to see what the big deal was, and of course we had to share what we discovered with you.</p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/features/spring_cleaning_five_awesome_disk_cleaners">Spring Cleaning: Five Awesome Disk Cleaners</a> - Sure, our Macs are nowhere near as finicky and needy when it comes to user maintenance as our friends' PCs, but that doesn't mean we haven't junked up our hard drive or don't have any corrupted files lurking about. We've rounded up five of the best disk cleaning softwares we could find just to help you and your Mac get in the spring cleaning spirit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Reviews:</strong></p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><img src="/files/u124583/rss_newspaper_showdown.png" alt="app showdown" width="600" height="300" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/app_showdown_rss_newspapers">App Showdown: RSS Newspapers</a> - The big gorgeous iPad screen is killer for games and video but it can also turn your boring old RSS feed into a thing of beauty. While traditional print newspapers are dying, you can take your online lists and give them the old newsie spin with these slick apps.</p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/13inch_23ghz_core_i5_macbook_pro_review">13-inch 2.3GHz Core i5 MacBook Pro Review</a> - It's not Apple's biggest and best laptop but it sure is a sweet little machine and we put it through its paces to see just what it is capable of doing. It smoked the latest MacBook Air and came with the wicked new Thunderbolt port which transferred our data at the speed of awesome.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>How-Tos:</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><img src="/files/u307916/2011/Online/gametime/voicemail.jpg" alt="gvoicemail" width="320" height="480" /></strong></p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_convert_voicemail_text_messages">How to Convert Voicemail to Text Messages</a> - If you're a Google Voice user, you're already pretty familiar with the ability to turn your voice messages into transcribed text. Well, did you know you can auto-forward your regular iPhone calls to your Google Voice number and have it do its magic? Now you do!&nbsp;</p><p>- <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_secure_your_facebook_profile">How to Secure Your Facebook Profile</a> - You'd hate it if someone totally jacked your Facebook account and was trolling through your pictures, reading your private messages, sending naughty comments to your friends or parents, wouldn't you? So why do you log in to the site on public WiFi, and why do you not lock your Facebook account down a little bit more? You don't know how? That's what we're here for.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>News:</strong></p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong><img src="/files/u220907/apple-osx-lion.jpg" alt="LION" width="200" height="150" /></strong></p><p>Guess <a href="http://bit.ly/fZpSUr">who's turning nine this year?</a> That's right, the OS we love love love OS X...and what better way to celebrate than with the early summer release of Lion? Apple's clearly on schedule with the <a href="http://bit.ly/hzraVS">Golden Master set to drop</a>...and will MobileMe be getting a revamping to coincide with all this newness? Yes, if the rumormill is on its game, <a href="http://bit.ly/egE5RV">plus $20 yearly cloud music thrown in</a> to boot...and as long as you're rocking some MobileMe, you might as well get your <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_use_calendar_groups_new_mobileme_calendar">Calendar synced up to 11</a>, because when it works right, it's all gold...but should this mystical free MobileMe (with non-free, add-on music streaming) prove as elusive as unicorns and white iPhones, you can always <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_play_your_itunes_library_remotely_over_vpn ">access all your music through your very own VPN</a>....continuing down the MobileMe path we've been carving for ourselves today, here's a tip on <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_save_email_sent_through_mobilemes_idisk_web_app ">saving an email</a> sent through MobileMe's iDisk web app -- you know, in case you want to.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And while we keep harping on MobileMe, this week something else happened in the realm of someone with Mobile in their name, that being <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/news/att_scoop_tmobile ">AT&amp;Ts attempt to acquire T-Mobile</a>...which, of course, had us here asking what does this mean for the iPhone, <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/features/att_tmobile_what_does_it_mean_iphone ">will it make it to T-Mobile</a> or what?...and it's clearly a question <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/blogs/will_iphone_ever_make_its_way_tmobile">many are asking</a>...another Mobile we're interested in seeing do well, for well's sake is <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/news/gv_mobile_returns_huge_20_update_slick_new_ui_push_notifications">GV Mobile + </a>which just came back to the App Store with a huge, ginormous, eupdate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/features/case_you_missed_it_mar_20_mar_26#commentsNewsBlogsReviewsAT&TGV MobileMobileMeT-MobileFeaturesiPadiPhoneiPodMacTop StoriesHow-TosSun, 27 Mar 2011 05:38:19 +0000J Keirn-Swanson10456 at http://www.maclife.comGV Mobile+ Returns with Huge 2.0 Update, Slick New UI, Push Notificationshttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/gv_mobile_returns_huge_20_update_slick_new_ui_push_notifications
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/gv_mobile_2.0_200px.jpg" alt="GV Mobile+ 2.0" width="200" height="150" class="graphic-right" />Since the official Google Voice app landed in the iOS App Store, there hasn’t been a lot of chatter from developers of third-party apps, which had long been the only way to use the service on your iPhone. One of the original Google Voice apps has returned after a lengthy hiatus with GV Mobile+ 2.0.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/2011/03/welcome-gv-mobile-v2-0/" target="_blank">Developer Sean Kovacs has quietly released</a> a major new 2.0 update to his popular <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-mobile/id392608246?mt=8#" target="_blank">GV Mobile+</a> app. You may recall that GV Mobile was one of the first Google Voice apps to hit the App Store, then got caught up in the crossfire between Apple and Google when the search giant’s official app got rejected. Dropped from the App Store, Kovacs went underground to offer GV Mobile via the jailbreak Cydia app, only to triumphantly return with GV Mobile+ last September.<br /><br />Since then, Google has released their own official (and free) <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-voice/id318698524?mt=8" target="_blank">Google Voice</a> app, and the $2.99 GV Mobile+ languished without further updates. Meanwhile, the competing <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-connect-call-sms-client/id347835665?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Connect</a> has continued to get frequent updates, leading many loyal GV Mobile+ users to wonder if developer Kovacs had simply abandoned the app.<br /><br />That has proved to not be the case, with a major new 2.0 (technically 2.0.031811) release which brings a slick new user interface and a host of user-requested features including push notifications and more. Among the features included are picture messaging, multiple recipient texting (up to five people), support for all GV folders, search, pull to load older data, an option to turn key tones on or off, default contacts action and more call methods.<br /><br />Kovacs has also brought back some features users missed from earlier versions, including favorites and spell check (we’re quite thankful for that last one!), and niceties such highlighting of voicemail transcriptions during playback.<br /><br />All in all, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-mobile/id392608246?mt=8#" target="_blank">GV Mobile+ 2.0</a> appears to more than make up for the absence of updates in recent months. The 3.2MB download is free for existing users and $2.99 for new users, compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (though it’s not a universal app) and requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a></em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/gv_mobile_returns_huge_20_update_slick_new_ui_push_notifications#commentsNewsApp StoreGoogle voiceGV MobileiOS appsnew featurespush notificationsiPhoneiPodFri, 25 Mar 2011 12:52:53 +0000J.R. Bookwalter10448 at http://www.maclife.comYou’re Not Dreaming: Google Voice Apps Return to the iPhonehttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/you%E2%80%99re_not_dreaming_google_voice_apps_return_iphone
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/gv_mobile_app_screens_325px.jpg" alt="GV Mobile+" width="317" height="239" style="margin-left: 31px; margin-right: 31px;" /><br /><br />It was an exciting weekend for Google Voice fans who use the iPhone, with not one but two native apps back in the App Store after being unceremoniously outlawed by Apple more than a year ago.<br /><br /><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/18/google-voice-iphone-2/" target="_blank">TechCrunch is reporting</a> that developer Sean Kovacs has made a triumphant return to the iOS platform with <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-mobile/id392608246?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Mobile+</a>, an updated version of the Google Voice client that was dumped from the platform last year. The app was made available again late Saturday night, a byproduct of the new, looser App Store guidelines that Apple recently put in place.<br /><br />GV Mobile+ is a front-end client for the free Google Voice service, which essentially allows you to have “one number for life” and route those calls to multiple phones (be they landlines or cell-based), including SMS, voicemail and more. After being dumped by Apple, the app found a new home on Cydia, where it has continued to be updated for users with jailbroken devices. But now it’s back where it belongs, in the App Store.<br /><br />Apple must also be feeling extra generous to Google Voice users, since GV Mobile+ actually wasn’t the first such app to return to the App Store this past week -- on Friday, a new app called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-connect/id347835665?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Connect</a> from developer Andreas Amann actually beat Kovacs to the punch, although GV Mobile+ is the better-known app given its troubled history, which has been widely documented in the tech press.<br /><br />As you may recall, GV Mobile+ and a competing app from Riverturn called VoiceCentral were both available for sale prior to July, 2009. When Google submitted their own Voice app to Apple, it was effectively banned from the App Store, and the two third-party solutions were banished as well. To this day it’s still not clear what happened, since none of the apps actually broke any App Store rules; <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/18/google-voice-iphone-2/" target="_blank">TechCrunch and many others have been left to assume</a> that the Google Voice clients simply got “caught in the crossfire of the growing rivalry between Apple and Google.”<br /><br />Whatever the reason, we now have two native Google Voice clients available for the iPhone, and a third solution has been available for months as well in the form of Riverturn’s VoiceCentral Black Swan, which is essentially a souped-up HTML5 bookmarklet that circumvents the App Store entirely and does a fine job of offering Google Voice functionality on its own terms. Riverturn claims that they will likely revise and resubmit their own native VoiceCentral app in the near future.<br /><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-mobile/id392608246?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Mobile+</a> and <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-connect/id347835665?mt=8" target="_blank">GV Connect</a> are each $2.99 and both offer similar functionality; neither app currently offers push notifications for SMS text messages, but Kovacs plans to implement them in GV Mobile+ with a future update. A free Google Voice account is required to use either app.<br /><br />Now the real question is, where is Google’s own, official Voice app? After being denied a spot in the App Store and sparking an infamous FCC inquiry last year, the app remains a no-show. Google only offers the following non-statement: “We currently offer Google Voice mobile apps for Blackberry and Android, and we offer an HTML5 web app for the iPhone. We have nothing further to announce at this time.”<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a></em><a href="http://www.twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank"><br /></a></p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/you%E2%80%99re_not_dreaming_google_voice_apps_return_iphone#commentsNewsApp StoreApple Inc.Google voiceGV MobileiPad AppsiPhone appsiPod AppsiPhoneMon, 20 Sep 2010 12:44:13 +0000J.R. Bookwalter8279 at http://www.maclife.comApple Support Seems to Admit That AT&T Requested GV Apps to be Pulledhttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_support_seems_admit_att_requested_gv_apps_be_pulled
<!--paging_filter--><p><img alt="Sean Kovacs Support Chat with Apple" height="299" src="http://www.seankovacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/att-evil.png" title="Support Chat about GV Mobile" width="380" /></p><p>AT&amp;T truly is the carrier we all love to hate. They have continued what seems like a trend of daily screw ups. This time, according to Sean Kovacs' blog, <a href="http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/2009/07/apple-admits-att-pulled-all-gv-apps/" target="_blank">AT&amp;T seems to have requested</a> that Apple to remove the popular third-party app, GV Mobile, from the App Store.</p><p>GV Mobile was an app developed by Sean Kovacs to utilize the features of Google Voice on the iPhone, since there was no official app from Google for it (which you might want to know, Google DOES have an official app but Apple rejected it since this GV Mobile incident).</p><p>If AT&amp;T truly believes that Google Voice is a threat, why does it work with other AT&amp;T smartphones like the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-voice-mobile-app-for-blackberry.html" target="_blank">BlackBerry</a>. For some reason, they are threatened with it only on the iPhone, but no other smartphone they carry.</p><p>GV Mobile has been in the App Store for a while, and was even personally approved by Phil Schiller himself, who called Kovacs and apoligized for a delay in getting the app approved. Originally, Apple's excuse was that GV Mobile &quot;duplicated features of the iPhone,&quot; but it seemed that most of us thought it was something more than that. But now, from the screenshot above, it is confirmed that Apple has pulled the app by request of AT&amp;T (as well as a second app, VoiceCentral, and rejecting Google's official app).</p><p>For the record, Kovacs has found a way to bypass the App Store pull and GV Mobile is now free for jailbroken iPhones via Cydia. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_support_seems_admit_att_requested_gv_apps_be_pulled#commentsNewsApple IncAT&TGoogle voiceGV MobileWed, 29 Jul 2009 21:53:34 +0000Christine Chan4617 at http://www.maclife.com